{"id":1007,"date":"2018-01-07T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:18:02","slug":"how-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install a Plugin in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can install a plugin in WordPress in several ways. The best way to install a plugin is to use the WordPress Admin Dashboard, which automatically allows you to install plugins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over <strong>Plugins<\/strong> and click on <strong>Add New<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-add-new-menu.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> In the <strong>Search Plugin<\/strong> box, enter the name of the plugin you wish to install, such as Jetpack, and press enter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-search-add-plugin.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. The available plugins matching the keyword Jetpack will appear. Click on the <strong>Install<\/strong> button, which appears next to the plugins name.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-install-button-jetpack.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. The installation can take a few minutes. Once it is complete, it will display the <strong>Activate<\/strong> option. Click on it to activate your newly installed plugin.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-install-button-jetpack-activate.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The newly activated plugin will show in the sidebar menu. If a plugin requires a setup, it will display an option to complete it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can install a plugin in WordPress in several ways. The best way to install a plugin is to use the WordPress Admin Dashboard, which automatically allows you to install plugins. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over Plugins and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}